After-Effects renders videos too big of a filesize; how to reduce filesize?
Problem: I render After Effects Video and get a file size too big.
More information below:
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var rq_item = app.project.renderQueue.items.add(comp); // add the comp to the render queue rq_item.outputModule(1).file = File('~/Desktop/out.mov'); // set the output path rq_item.render = true; // set it to enabled (is the default) app.project.renderQueue.render(); |
However, the size of the 1080p rendered video is about 4GB. It is just a very simple 2 minute video.
I had this problem with After Effects before. To solve it, I was told to use Adobe Media Encoder. This solved my problem. For some reason, using Adobe Media Encoder to render the After Effects file drastically reduces the file size to 160MB. A lot of online forums say "Use Adobe Media Encoder" as a solution to the large file size problem.
Edit: I now manually fixed it and found that the problem was due to the codec (it was set to "Animation"). I changed it to H.264. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this in ExtendScript.
Thank you!
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